The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-10-28
LOCAL NEWS.

An appraisement OF the effects of Isaac
C. Dubois, decd, was made yesterday.
Don't miss seeing .sNobody's Claim" in
the Opera House next Tuesday evening.
Lippincott, Hewitt aud Smith received
on Monday a fine lot of bulls and heifers
direct from York State.
Jonathan A.. Webster will soon intro
duce machinery for making flour by the
roller process in his mill at East Lake.
A double team belonging to John S. Ell
we'll, of Yorktown, loaded with gases of
tomatoes. got away from the driver one day
last week and did slight damage to the
load.
We can personally assure our readers
that "Noboby's Claim,' which will be
presented in the Opera House here next
Tuesday evening, Nov. LIST, is one of the
best shows of the kind ever witnessed in
our town.
Mr.. Joseph r.. Simpson, of the Ameri-
can Electric Manufacturing Co., New
York. was in town yesterday, comforting
with some of our business men on the ad
visibility of establishing all electric light
plant in our borough. The matter did not
seem to meet with much encouragement.
Clerk Flynn, of the Board of Freehold
ers, has refused to accept the invoice OF
patent ballot boxes ordered by him for the
use of the county at the coming election.
The boxes were sent by express, Z. .. d..
and Mr.. Flynn refuses to take them until
certain stipulations of the order are COM
piled with.
On Saturday night last, as Stratton
Mitchell, of L. p. Neck, Was returning
home from Woodstown, he had three pairs
of boots stolen out of his buggy by some
one who unfastcned the apron on the back
part of the buggy, without stopping the
horse. Mr.. Mitchell knew nothing of the
loss till he got home.
Joseph Stretch commenced work last
Monday morning on the bridge crossing
the new street over the Bowen estate.
This structure crosses the street diagonally
and is $50 feet in length and four feet
clear, inside width. The work of grading
the street is progressing rapidly under SUI
pervision of j. S. Bradway.
A horse belonging to Henry Wormen-
tier hitched in front of the Pantaloon
factory, was frightened at the blowing OF
the six O'Clock whistle ON Wednesday
evening and threw itself, running about
six inches of the shaft of the wagon be-
tween the skin and the iieshy part OF Its
neck. The wound will probably neal up
all right.
The preserving and canning season being
about over, housewives are turning their
attention to picking. The market is well
supplied with the necessary articles used
in this line of household supplies, except
perhaps small pickles and cucumbers.
The frosts have killed all the growing
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cease in a short time.
The Chancellor last week rendered his
decision in the Ruth Duzby will case, tried
before the last term of Salem Orphans
Court. The Chancellor atfirms the decision
of the court below, which set aside the
will offered for probate, anddistributes the
real estate among the heirs-at-law. The
executors named in the will are also to pay
costs in the higher court.
The expectation that the chestnut crop
this year would be large, has, dealers say,
been realized, but the demand for them
has been so Unexpectedly large, that last
week prices advanced to q point almost
double thai of a couple of weeks ago. On
Saturday the nut was held at S4.S0 and
$500 bushel, with but little decline in
the demand. Shellbarks are in full sup
ply at Sl.0O ana Sl-tU a Dushel, ana wal
nuts range from so to 70 cents a bushel.
The boys will bless the last Legislature
for one thing and that is for allowing them
to trap rabbits. The law passed provides
that it shall be lawful for any person
owning or in possession of any farm to per.
init the catching of hare, commonly called
rabbits, in box traps, by any person con
nected with his household and under the
age of fifteen years, within the limits oil
such farm during the time in winch It is
now or may hereafter be law lul to shoot
the same"